Students Stage Walkout to Protest Chick-fil-A at Football Games

Students Stage Walkout to Protest Chick-fil-A at Football Games



A group of students from an Oregon high school staged a walkout last week to protest the school’s use of Chick-fil-A food at football games, saying the company’s presence contributes to an unsafe culture for LGBTQ individuals at the school.


The protest at West Linn High School was organized by the Gender and Sexuality Alliance, which says it has seen an increase in bullying at the school, according to KGW-TV.


The home football games traditionally feature a Chick-fil-A food truck.


“Hate crimes and harassment – we’re not going to stand for that anymore and we’re going to make sure school is a safe place for everyone. We’re not going to take it anymore,” said student Susie Walters, who helped organize the protest. 


Nearby, a separate group of students held a counterprotest to support Chick-fil-A. 


A school district spokesperson told KGW that the district was examining the process that is used to select vendors. 


The protest took place on a Friday. That night, at the home football game, the Chick-fil-A vendor truck was absent. 


“I have friends that are very happy that they’re not here and don’t believe they should be here because of some of the beliefs their company supposedly has,” Emily Williams, a West Linn student, told KATU-TV. “But then I have friends that are kind of upset by it because they love Chick-fil-A, they love the food, and…

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Church of Scotland minister suspended after Jeremy Corbyn incident and controversial tweets

The Church received complaints about Rev Richard Cameron’s social media use on Wednesday.

He tweeted in September that “homosexual behaviour is a sin” and “allowing children to change their gender is wicked”.

 

He also tweeted: “Christ has the power to help and change anyone. Obviously many gays hate this because want to carry on in their perversion.”

On top of that, the minister shared a series of controversial views on Islam, describing terrorism as “a problem Islam needs to deal with”, a full face veil as “oppressive and unBritish” and the prophet Muhammad as “a violent man”.

The Labour Party pointed out the tweets after Rev Cameron branded Jeremy Corbyn a “terrorist sympathiser” as he was entering the Heart of Scotstoun community centre in Glasgow on Wednesday.

The Church of Scotland rebuked the minster for his statements and said it would be reviewing complaints about the his comments.

In an update on Friday, a Church spokesperson said Rev Cameron has been suspended.

“In accordance with our procedures Rev Richard Cameron has been administratively suspended,” the spokesperson said.

“This is to allow us to carry out an enquiry in relation to the incident which took place earlier this week and the subsequent complaints about his social media use.”

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Bringing Up Bates Stars: We Want Our Show to Illustrate How Important God, Family Are

Bringing Up Bates Stars: We Want Our Show to Illustrate How Important God, Family Are



Growing up as one of 19 children and having your daily activities filmed for a television program isn’t the typical American life. 


But for Erin (Bates) Paine and Carlin (Bates) Stewart, it was a weekly reality filled with blessings, life lessons and, of course, a few trials.


UP Television’s Bringing Up Bates began broadcasting in 2014. At the time Erin had been married one year and Carlin was 16. 


The series’ eighth season premiered this year.


Although both women are married – and simultaneously pregnant – they still appear on the program. 


Bringing Up Bates differs from more mainstream reality programs that spotlight friction, fighting and backstabbing. Instead, Bringing Up Bates follows the lives of parents Gil and Kelly Jo Bates, their 19 children, their sons- and daughters-in-law and 11 grandchildren. The family is Christian. 


Carlin said she hopes viewers see the blessings of a big family on screen.


“One of the goals we all had on filming was to show how important family is,” Carlin told Christian Headlines. “We have never pretended to be a perfect family or one that has it all together. We have struggles and arguments and heartbreaks, like anyone else. But my parents tried to instill that we would get through life as a team and with God’s help. They tried to make every moment count, and I think that’s the…

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Noah’s Ark replica here to help Britain through Brexit, says owner

The boat is 70 metres long, open to the public every day and designed by Aad Peters, a Dutch TV and theatre producer.

Inside is a museum, telling famous stories from the Bible, such as the judgement of Solomon, Moses and Adam and Eve, through woodcraft.

It was meant to visit Germany but made a last minute change of direction to England, explained Mr Peters.

 

 

He said: “I thought that we have to go to England because I want to make a statement that you guys are not alone. We’re here as friends, as brothers, and the Ark is also a sign of hope.”

“What makes me sad about England is the mistrust which creates all the discussions. You don’t see each other anymore. You get into ‘this one on this side’ and ‘that guy and that side’. We have the story here on the ark from King Solomon and I always believe that if the Bible doesn’t give a picture to you today, why should I read the Bible?”

Mr Peters said the story of Solomon threatening to kill a baby in order to find out who the baby’s true mother was, found in 1 Kings 3, is a challenge to today’s Remainers and Leavers to simply get along with each other as well as the rest of Europe.

“In the Brexit stuff, don’t forget to love each other, don’t forget to see each other because you might ‘kill the baby’. That Bible story is an amazing story, even in this complication of England or the relationship between each other.

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Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill Two Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill Two Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria



JOS, Nigeria, November 15, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria on early Thursday morning (Nov. 14) hacked an 87-year-old Christian to death by machete and killed another by gunshot, an area resident said.


A group of herdsmen attacked predominantly Christian Agom village in southern Kaduna state’s Sanga Country at 4:30 a.m., area resident Gabriel Yakubu told Morning Star News by text message. Monday Kura, 87, and Emmanuel Agom, 48, both members of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ (ERCC), were killed as they slept in their rooms, he said.


“The Fulani herdsmen cut Monday Kura, 87 years, with a machete until he died, while Emmanuel, 48 years, was shot dead with a gun,” Yakubu said. “Sir, we need your prayers as my village is on fire and we are not getting any protection from the government.”


It was the first herdsmen attack on the village, which is four kilometers from the town of Gwantu, he said. The ERCC church is the only church in the village, he said.


The attack could not be immediately confirmed. Agom is located along Wasa Station Road, west of Gwantu, between Kwana Nunbu and Gani Sarki villages, he said.


Sanga County was the site of a Muslim Fulani herdsmen attack on March 16 that killed 10 Christians and burned about 30 houses. That attack also occurred as residents of Nandu Gbok village were…

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Christian charity condemns Govt inaction as 22,000 youngsters set to sleep rough this Christmas

The number is comparable to the capacity of a sold-out gig at The O2 arena in London.

Centrepoint collated the data after talking to local councils about the number of 16 to 25-year-olds at risk of not having a roof over their heads this winter.

Mark Brennan, London Catalyst team leader for Christian homeless charity Housing Justice told Premier one of the problems comes down to a lack of housing.

  

He says the Government has continually failed to provide solutions for the country’s growing homeless population.

“There’s been plenty of lip service – all kinds of declarations and promises have been made that just haven’t come through, which is obviously tragic.”

He went on to say that although the issue of “conspicuous rough sleepers” needs to be addressed, this is just the “tip of the iceberg”.

“The bigger issue is that below the waterline is hidden homelessness,” Brennan said.

“If you look at documents and reports like the homelessness monitor, for example, they claim about 3 million people in England are hidden homeless,” he continued.

“These are people that might have a roof over their head sporadically but they haven’t got a home. They haven’t got the support network behind them in order to sustain the accommodation.”

Figures from Centrepoint found that 33 per cent of homeless young people have spent the night in a park, 27 per cent have slept in a tent and 10 per…

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Appeals Court Overturns Ban on Prayer before Florida High School Football Games

Appeals Court Overturns Ban on Prayer before Florida High School Football Games



An appeals court has overturned a legal ruling which banned a Christian school from hosting prayers before a football game.


Back in 2015, Cambridge Christian School in Tampa, Florida was ordered to cease praying over a loudspeaker at the start of its state championship game against University Christian School of Jacksonville. As a result of the order, Cambridge launched a lawsuit against the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA).


In a unanimous decision issued Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit slapped down the previous ruling by the district court that banned the school from praying, noting that the lower court was “too quick to dismiss all of Cambridge Christian’s claims out of hand.”


“Taking the complaint in a light most favorable to the plaintiff, as we must at this stage in the proceedings, the schools’ claims for relief under the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses have been adequately and plausibly pled,” wrote Eleventh Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus in his decision, according to the Christian Post.


“And while we agree with the district court that the loudspeaker was a nonpublic forum, we conclude that Cambridge Christian has plausibly alleged that it was arbitrarily and haphazardly denied access to the forum in violation of the First Amendment.”


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Famed atheist YouTube host admits he likes Jesus and is open to the Christian faith

Filmed in front of 1,000 people at Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa in California the debate is the latest episode to be released as part of The Big Conversation debate series and also featured Oxford Professor of Mathematics, Dr John Lennox. Rubin’s comments may come as a surprise to his many social media followers who have heard him state that he was an atheist.

 

“I’d had a series of atheists on [my show] in a row, and then people online just kept saying that I was an atheist. And then I just said it one day… it didn’t mean anything to me one way or another.” However, he went on to describe how he changed his mind recently following a period of reflection saying, “One of the thoughts that I kept having was that: I’m not an atheist. I did this live stream where I said that I just don’t like the word atheist – it doesn’t fit what I believe… I got a lot of hate for that one, because the atheists, they don’t like a converted person either.”

 

The host of The Rubin Report says he has been impacted by his friendship with well-known Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson and that his writings were the catalyst for his beliefs to begin to shift. He commented “I’m a better person today than I was before I started this journey with Jordan, and that doesn’t mean I subscribe to the Church of Jordan Peterson –it’s just that this guy has…

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John MacArthur Speaks Out on Women Preachers after Beth Moore Controversy

John MacArthur Speaks Out on Women Preachers after Beth Moore Controversy



Over the weekend, John MacArthur continued his commentary on women preachers in the aftermath of publicly criticizing author and speaker Beth Moore. 


“I do not like to give short answers. I don’t like to get put in a position to do that, because I feel like that just escalates confusion, so I want to take the opportunity to address the issue of women preachers this morning and to give you a more thorough answer from the Word of God on this very, very important subject,” he said from the pulpit of Grace Community Church in California, according to the Christian Post.


The controversy surrounding him and Beth Moore occurred while he answered questions during a celebration of his 50-year preaching career. The author replied “Go home” when asked about Beth Moore. He continued: “Just because you have the skill to sell jewelry on the TV sales channel doesn’t mean you should be preaching. There are people who have certain hawking skills, natural abilities to sell, they have energy and personality and all of that. That doesn’t qualify you to preach.”


On Sunday, MacArthur continued the conversation.


“Women are to maintain submission to men in all churches in all times,” he said. “Women pastors and women preachers are the most obvious evidence of churches rebelling against the Bible…Women who pastor and women who preach in the church are a disgrace…

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Church of Scotland minister suspended after Jeremy Corbyn incident, anti-gay tweets

The Church received complaints about Rev Richard Cameron’s social media use on Wednesday.

He tweeted in September that “homosexual behaviour is a sin” and “allowing children to change their gender is wicked”.

 

He also tweeted: “Christ has the power to help and change anyone. Obviously many gays hate this because want to carry on in their perversion.”

On top of that, the minister shared a series of controversial views on Islam, describing terrorism as “a problem Islam needs to deal with”, a full face veil as “oppressive and unBritish” and the prophet Muhammad as “a violent man”.

The Labour Party pointed out the tweets after Rev Cameron branded Jeremy Corbyn a “terrorist sympathiser” as he was entering the Heart of Scotstoun community centre in Glasgow on Wednesday.

The Church of Scotland rebuked the minster for his statements and said it would be reviewing complaints about the his comments.

In an update on Friday, a Church spokesperson said Rev Cameron has been suspended.

“In accordance with our procedures Rev Richard Cameron has been administratively suspended,” the spokesperson said.

“This is to allow us to carry out an enquiry in relation to the incident which took place earlier this week and the subsequent complaints about his social media use.”

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